Middleware Job Trends in Manchester

Middleware
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Middleware skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 121 188
Rank change year-on-year -28 +67 +19
Permanent jobs citing Middleware 5 20 12
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.11% 0.99% 0.26%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.11% 3.88% 1.05%
Number of salaries quoted 3 11 6
10th Percentile £66,543 - -
25th Percentile £72,058 £64,621 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £66,367 £67,750
Median % change year-on-year +31.84% -2.04% +8.40%
75th Percentile £93,750 £73,886 £74,688
90th Percentile - - £75,000
North West median annual salary £73,500 £66,367 £67,750
% change year-on-year +10.75% -2.04% +13.82%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Manchester

Middleware falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 449 516 1,144
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 10.17% 25.49% 24.85%
Number of salaries quoted 374 424 930
10th Percentile £33,975 £40,375 £39,959
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,813 £45,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -
75th Percentile £76,250 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,769 £82,500
North West median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% -

Middleware
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Middleware relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Middleware job vacancy trend in Manchester

Middleware
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Middleware.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Middleware

Middleware
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Middleware in Manchester over the 6 months to 2 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Middleware in Manchester

Middleware
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) CICS
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (40.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (20.00%) PegaRULES
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) iPaaS
3 2 (40.00%) AWS
3 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (40.00%) GCP
3 2 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (40.00%) OneDrive
3 2 (40.00%) SaaS
4 1 (20.00%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) DHCP
1 2 (40.00%) DNS
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) DB2
1 2 (40.00%) Hazelcast
1 2 (40.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (20.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Eclipse
1 2 (40.00%) Git
1 2 (40.00%) IntelliJ
1 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Java Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Pega Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Senior
1 2 (40.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Integration Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (40.00%) CSS
1 2 (40.00%) CSS3
1 2 (40.00%) HTML
1 2 (40.00%) HTML5
1 2 (40.00%) J2EE
1 2 (40.00%) JMS
1 2 (40.00%) Kafka
1 2 (40.00%) React
1 2 (40.00%) REST
1 2 (40.00%) RESTful
1 2 (40.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Mainframe
1 2 (40.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
1 2 (40.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
1 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Business Continuity
2 2 (40.00%) Business Strategy
2 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (40.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Investment Management
2 2 (40.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) OOP
2 2 (40.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (40.00%) Scrum
3 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) ITIL
3 1 (20.00%) OO
3 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (20.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Java
1 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (40.00%) PL/SQL
1 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (40.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle
2 2 (40.00%) Pega
3 1 (20.00%) Software AG
3 1 (20.00%) webMethods